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BAD to better at angel investing. Interview with Miranda Gottlieb | BADideas.fund BADideas.fund
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Timestamps:00:00 Miranda's background04:20 Is startup investing an obvious thing to do?06:08 Passion vs financial upside in angel investing08:20 How to get started11:06 Creating an investment process and evaluating dealflow14:05 Two unexpected lessons from angel investing17:00 Investing as a startup builder - fuel or distraction?20:00 Portfolio construction - how to start and how that evolves.25:50 What makes CEE (and BADideas.fund :) special28:00 Where is the healthtech going31:45 Advice for new angel investorsAbout Miranda Gottlieb:- Venture Partner at Pappas Capital and fractional CMO (Healthy CMO: https://www.healthycmo.com/) to Seed-Series A startups- 5 years in health tech corporate venture, venture capital, and Seed-Unicorn startups- Ex-CMO of Curative, which she helped grow from $0 to unicorn w/ 7k employees through a $25M marketing budget- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirandaegottlieb/About BADideas.fund:BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).
Timestamps:00:00 Miranda's background04:20 Is startup investing an obvious thing to do?06:08 Passion vs financial upside in angel investing08:20 How to get started11:06 Creating an investment process and evaluating dealflow14:05 Two unexpected lessons from angel investing17:00 Investing as a startup builder - fuel or distraction?20:00 Portfolio construction - how to start and how that evolves.25:50 What makes CEE (and BADideas.fund :) special28:00 Where is the healthtech going31:45 Advice for new angel investorsAbout Miranda Gottlieb:- Venture Partner at Pappas Capital and fractional CMO (Healthy CMO: https://www.healthycmo.com/) to Seed-Series A startups- 5 years in health tech corporate venture, venture capital, and Seed-Unicorn startups- Ex-CMO of Curative, which she helped grow from $0 to unicorn w/ 7k employees through a $25M marketing budget- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirandaegottlieb/About BADideas.fund:BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).
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